And this is why the hobby is dying. Home ownership is well beyond the means of most of the population now, and rental properties/apartments do not allow antenna

And this is why the hobby is dying. Home ownership is well beyond the means of most of the population now, and rental properties/apartments do not allow antenna structures. Those who persist and evaluate portable/mobile HF ops or settle with a compromise antenna get soundly shit upon by other hams who say "If you can't put up a beam on a tower and you can't afford a legal-limit amplifier to feed it with, why bother?"